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Picky eaters — like penguins and my cousin Jables — could starve under climate change
Specialist eaters like chinstrap penguins could face species-ending food shortages, while generalists like gentoo penguins thrive.
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When did letting your kids walk home alone become a crime?
A couple in Silver Spring, Md., let their kids walk home form the park unchaperoned. Their reward was a visit from Child Services.
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M. Sanjayan is hosting a new nature series on … humans?
Want to save the natural world? Get your hands dirty, says this conservation scientist.
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Future forests to be smaller, less majestic
California's giant trees -- including its showstopping sequoias and redwoods -- are growing smaller under climate pressure.
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Pope wants you to stop popping out babies — but don’t even think about using birth control
In the race to catch up to women of the 21st century, the Catholic Church is stuck somewhere around 1912. Cool!
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Food bikes combine our two favorite things
From bakeries on wheels in Pittsburgh to mobile taquerias in Oakland, brewers, chefs, baristas, and farmers alike are turning to bikes.
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Watch me get an IUD — for the planet
Sometimes, doing the most sustainable thing for your uterus means you get to go to McDonald's afterward.
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Is there such thing as guilt-free leather?
A reader wonders if faux leather is more ethical than the real stuff. Umbra says she could be suede.
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Quick, go visit the ocean one last time before it dies
We mess with the oceans so much that we may be due for a marine mass extinction, says a new broad study.
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Even Hello Kitty is getting into sustainable food
The cartoon cat moves on from homemaking and Ferris wheel-riding to start her own wildly popular organic farm in Hong Kong.
